APNewsBreak: Congress to hold Boeing hearing in SC

[The Northerner]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A congressional committee is traveling to South Carolina later this month to hold a hearing over a federal labor lawsuit that claims Boeing Co. moved manufacturing facilities from Washington state to avoid unionized workers.

The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government planned to announce on Wednesday that it will hold a June 17 hearing in North Charleston, home to Chicago-based Boeing's new 787 passenger aircraft assembly line.

In April, the National Labor Relations Board sued Boeing, claiming the manufacturer located its line in South Carolina — a right-to-work state — to retaliate against Washington state union workers who went on strike in 2008. The NLRB wants that work returned to Washington, even though the company has already built a new South Carolina plant and hired 1,000 workers.

Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has requested that NLRB Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon attend the hearing, but Solomon wrote to Issa earlier this month that he wouldn't participate because of the ongoing litigation.

Read more: http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/business/article/APNewsBreak-Congress-to-hold-Boeing-hearing-in-SC-1414872.php

[aquart]

1. Darrell Issa? That scum?

The man who unwittingly gave Arnold to California?

[Romulox]

2. Um, what about TOYOTA, Mr. Issa? They shut down the unionized NUMMI plant to focus on scab plants

in the cheap labor South.